Stepan Veselovsky, who was removed by the supervisory board from the duties of CEO of the Lviv IT Cluster, acknowledges the fact that the IT Arena trademarks do not belong to him, but to the Lviv IT Cluster, and announced the transfer of affairs to the new management.
Stepan Veselovsky, who was removed by the supervisory board from the duties of CEO of the Lviv IT Cluster, acknowledges the fact that the IT Arena trademarks do not belong to him, but to the Lviv IT Cluster, and announced the transfer of affairs to the new management.
«I support the constructive format of the settlement and the initiated process of transferring cases, documents, and necessary access to ensure the stable operation of the cluster,» he noted in his Facebook post.
He added that as a result of his meeting with the chairman of the supervisory board and acting CEO of the Lviv IT Cluster, Sviatoslav Kavetsky, a number of controversial issues were agreed upon.
«I am ready to continue to cooperate within all procedures and facilitate the inventory and independent audit. We have also resolved the issue of the IT Arena trademarks. They belong to the cluster,» Stepan Veselovsky expressed his position.
The latter apologized to everyone who was «touched or disappointed» by this conflict situation around the Lviv IT cluster.
We will remind you that the dismissed head of the Lviv IT cluster, Veselovsky, previously stated that he agreed to leave the position of CEO of the cluster at the end of 2025, and he was asked to stay.
Before that, the supervisory board of Lviv IT Cluster decided to remove Executive Director Stepan Veselovsky, and Veselovsky and the team announced that they were leaving the cluster.
Lviv IT Cluster stated that its executive director Stepan Veselovsky never owned the rights to the IT Arena brand.
Co-founder and CEO of IT company Intellias Vitaliy Sedler, in turn, commented on the split in the Lviv IT Cluster, which he called a «bad story.»
